Robert James Brown was manager at Manor Court Children’s Home, in Manor Court Road, when he sexually and physically abused the young boys during the 1970s.

He would threaten, humiliate and beat the children if he perceived they had done something wrong.

Brown, 69, would use his position to identify a child who he would then regularly sexually abuse both at the home and during a holiday in Great Yarmouth.

In 2012, one of the victims visited a medical professional and told of the abuse they had suffered. The police were notified and Brown was arrested.

Following a three-week trial at Warwick Crown Court, he was found guilty of 14 counts of indecent assault on a male and four counts of cruelty to a person under 16. The offences involved seven boys aged under 16.

Brown, who lived at the home at the time, but is now of Eastern Avenue, Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, was on Monday sentenced at the same court to nine years behind bars.

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Anamarie Coomansingh, specialist prosecutor from the West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service’s complex casework unit, said: “Robert Brown was employed to provide support and ensure the safety of vulnerable teenagers, however, he abused his position of trust in order to prey on the children for us own sexual gratification.

“He used his status not only to intimidate and bully his victims, but to identify those that he would later sexually abuse.

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“For over 40 years Brown had thought that he had got away with what he did to those defenceless children.

"Throughout this prosecution he has denied committing such crimes and instead claimed that the victims had colluded with one another to make up these allegations.

“However, thanks to the courage and support of those victims, the prosecution team were able to bring a dangerous sexual predator to justice and Brown will now have to deal with the consequences of his actions.”